L i t e r a t u r e 26 Handsomely Bound And Illustrated Deluxe Set Of The Works Of Tolstoy 25. TOLSTOY, Leo. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy. Translated from the Original Russian and Edited by Leo Wiener. Boston, 1904-05, 1912. Twenty-eight volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco gilt. $12,000. Finely bound “Edition de Luxe,” one of only 1000 sets, of Tolstoy’s entire canon, finely printed and wide-margined, with title pages on Japanese vellum and over 100 engraved, etched, and photogravure illustrations. “The present translation contains everything given in the Russian complete edition… and all the publications of Tolstoy’s prohibited works which have appeared in Switzerland and in England. The only works omitted are those which Tolstoy himself translated from other languages.” Volume 24 contains a life of Tolstoy, index and bibliography of works and articles on Tolstoy in English, German and French. While the first 24 volumes were published 1904-05, the final four volumes—including his great later novel Hadji Murad—were published in 1912, and thus are often not present. Interiors clean and fine, Volumes I (Childhood, etc.), XIII and XIV each with shallow chip to spine head, light rubbing to several joints, bindings sound. A near-fine, handsome set. “I Caught This Morning Morning’s Minion”: Rare First Edition Of Hopkins’ Poems, An Uncut And Unopened Copy 26. HOPKINS, Gerard Manley. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Now First Published. Edited with Notes by Robert Bridges. London, 1918. Small octavo, original half raw linen, custom cloth clamshell box. $7000. Rare first edition, one of only 750 copies, containing the first appearances of many of Hopkins’ poems, with two photogravure portraits and two double-page facsimiles. “Hopkins’s poetry with its religious faith, his experiments in versification, his ‘dark night of the soul’ would have reduced all his Victorian contemporaries to immediate insignificance—like Rimbaud’s in France—had they but known of him” (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 33). Hopkins, widely considered the first modern poet, remained largely unappreciated in his lifetime. After converting to Catholicism from the Church of England, he entered the Jesuit order and resolved “to write no more.” Seven years later, when a shipwreck claimed the lives of five Franciscan nuns, Hopkins’ rector requested a poem in their honor. “The Wreck of the Deutschland” reversed Hopkins’ self-imposed silence. Other equally startling poems followed. After his death in 1889, his friend, the Poet Laureate Robert Bridges, began to publish a few of the poems individually, and in 1918, edited and published this first collected edition. Without very scarce dust jacket. Interior generally fine, only mild toning to extremities, slight rubbing to spine label. A beautiful about-fine copy.
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